This video is a request for help. If you'd like to help us help the world learn English
and also help people who are deaf or hard of hearing, then this video is for you
First a quick vocabulary quiz. You know when you go to see a foreign film at the cinema...
You mean the movies... Yeah and they print the words the people are
saying in your language at the bottom of the screen. What are those words called?
Subtitles. Yeah. OK next question. What about if the movie
was recorded in English, and then they recorded actors saying the words in your language?
That often happens with kids movies. Yes. Let's demonstrate it, Jay. OK, imagine I'm the actor
Hello and welcome to our home in Philadelphia.
Bonjour. Bienvenue à chez nous à Philadelphie. Do you think it worked? Yeah, I think so.
Sometimes dubbing works and sometimes it doesn't.
That's what it's called - dubbing. Yeah. When a movie is dubbed, the original audio
is replaced with your language. OK so there are subtitles and there's dubbing. What about
closed captions? What are they? Aren't they the same as subtitles?
Well nearly, but they can contain extra information like a bird flies into the shot or there's
an explosion or a big spider falls from the ceiling.
OK. Now, under this video, there's a button labelled cc. It stands for closed captions
and when you turn it on and off you'll find English subtitles.
Try it now, if you haven't tried it already - click cc. It's easy, huh?
But there's something else about captions that not many people know, and it's very cool.
YouTube can deliver captions in different languages. If you're understanding this video,
I'm guessing your English is pretty good. But there are lots of English learners who
need more help, more support. Sometimes they don't fully understand the
captions in English. They need a translation in their own language, so they can check things
- make sure they've understood. So here's our request. Can you translate the
captions in any of our lesson videos into your language?
If so we would really appreciate it. It helps us share our videos around the world which
helps our channel grow, and it helps our viewers who need a bit more help and support with
their English. Here's how it works. I write captions - English
captions - for all our video lessons. I time all the speech so the captions appear at the
correct time, so you don't need to worry about that. What you'd need to do is type in a translation
for each line. There's an autotranslate button that can speed
things up. It uses Google translate so you'll need to review it and fix things and then
you click submit for review. I'll put a link to a YouTube tutorial video
about how to do it in the description below, but it looks very straightforward.
So check out the tutorial and play with it, and tell us in the comments if you have any
problems. And there's one more thing I want to tell
you about. Language learners aren't the only people who need captions. There are 642 million
people in the world who are deaf or hard of hearing. One of those 642 million people is
the hugely talented Rikki Poynter. She's one of the friends that I made at YouTube NextUp and
she's the person who taught me about captions. She makes deaf education videos and she needs
people to caption her videos in other languages too. I'll put a link to Rikki's channel in
the description below You'e gotta check it out. She is amazing.
So thank you all very much for watching. We'll be back with a regular lesson next week.
See you then. Bye!